Every child deserves effective, high-quality professional teachers. Without them, children will have difficulty reaching the high standards we expect them to achieve, and too many of them will fail. Historically, the federal government has worked to ensure that all children have equal access to a quality education, no matter where theylive or what level of resources are available to their local schools. More recently, this attention to equity has expanded to include efforts to improve teacher quality. A logical next step for the federal government is to encourage and fund well-designed programs of induction for all new teachers--a straightforward and reliable way to produce rapid improvement in the quality of the nation's teaching workforce.

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